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ArticleACS medicinal chemistry letters2017

Seeking (and Finding) Biased Ligands of the Kappa Opioid Receptor.

Laura M Bohn, Jeffrey Aubé

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Article in ACS medicinal chemistry letters, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Triazole 187 is a biased KOR agonist that suppresses itch without sedation and induces anxiolytic-like behaviors in mice.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  11. Opioid signaling and design of analgesics.Progress in molecular biology and translational science · 2023
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  13. Antinociceptive Effects of Kappa-Opioid Receptor Agonists.Handbook of experimental pharmacology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Laura M BohnDepartments of Molecular Medicine and Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States.
Jeffrey AubéDivision of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.

Funding

Novel Probes of the Kappa Opioid Receptor: Chemistry, Pharmacology, and BiologyR01DA031927 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA · PI Jeffrey Aube, Laura M. Bohn · 2011 to 2026
$8.4M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA031927
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The discovery and characterization of two classes of kappa opioid receptor agonists that are biased for G protein over βarrestin signaling are described.

Indexed as

biased ligandsfunctional selectivityG protein-coupled receptorskappa opioid receptor agonistsβArrestin

Identifiers

PMID28740600
PMCPMC5512133

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